Step 4: Recruiting
Access talent within a niche market
Working with students gives you early access to talent, before they enter the more competitive graduate jobs market. This means you should run your recruitment process in the same way as for any other prospective employee, to ensure:
- Fair and equal access for a more diverse talent pool and workforce, including non-discriminatory recruitment of student visa holders (Equality Act 2010)
- Clear information about the opportunity, to avoid time-wasting
- Honest description of any future prospects, to optimise outcomes
All information around Recruiting & Experience is based on the 'gold standard' of work experience, for example an internship or placement and is informed by current good practice as defined by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and DevelopmentLink opens in a new window and professional careers bodies ASET and AGCAS. Please select the information you find useful to inform your chosen types of opportunity.
Warwick students act independently to secure work experience on the basis of relevant information, advice and guidance provided by the University; in all cases, we encourage students to engage in any recruitment process in good faith, to abide by good practice, and to retain open communication with employers throughout these processes. Where students secure a work placement with the intention that it form a credit-bearing part of their degree course, they then share that finalised opportunity with their academic department for approval, but students are accountable for their own job search and offer management.
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Shortlisting & Selection
How to shape your shortlisting and what selection methods you might consider
Making offers
Understand the various roles and responsibilities of the student, the University and recruiting organisations
Pay & Agreements
Understand your responsibilities and what is appropriate for your role
Outsource your recruitment Process
If you want to outsource the recruitment and selection process, either in whole or in part, you can use a temping agency, or access the University's own agency, Unitemps. Unitemps has access to Warwick students who are keen to learn and develop.
"For Employers, all the other element of good people management will achieve nothing if you have the wrong people in the wrong jobs"
Kevin Green, Chief Executive, REC, 'The Good Recruitment Campaign, Resourcing the right way'.